{"id":2056,"date":"2013-10-05T14:49:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T22:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2013-10-05T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T22:58:10","slug":"announcements-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=2056","title":{"rendered":"Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APPLICATIONS SOUGHT FOR 2014-16 WASHINGTON STATE POET LAUREATE<br \/>\n<strong>Submissions are due November 8, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My appointment as Washington State Poet Laureate will conclude in February 2014. They&#8217;ve been the most gratifying two years of my working life. \u00a0My most wonderful sponsoring organizations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanities.org\/\">Humanities Washington<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.wa.gov\/\">Arts WA<\/a>, have just announced they are accepting applications for 2014 &#8211; 2016 Poet Laureate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PRESS-Washington-State-Poet-Laureate-Application.pdf\">Washington State Poet Laureate Press Release<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanities.org\/programs\/washington-state-poet-laureate\/2014-16-poet-laureate-application-guidelines\">Application Guidelines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanities.org\/programs\/washington-state-poet-laureate\/2014-16-poet-laureate-application-form\">Poet Laureate Application<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please help me get the world out to interested and qualified poets in our state? \u00a0And quickly, as the deadline for submission is <strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">November 8!<\/span> <\/strong>We have only just started to explore the possibilities of this role in our state&#8217;s poetry community. With each successive laureate we can stretch and redefine the position and expand public interest. Do you have a vision and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanities.org\/programs\/washington-state-poet-laureate\/2014-16-poet-laureate-application-guidelines\">meet the qualifications<\/a>? Please consider applying! I am happy to answer any questions you have about the position: feel free to drop me a line at poet@humanities.org. \u00a0Kathleen Flenniken<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APPLICATIONS SOUGHT FOR 2014-16 WASHINGTON STATE POET LAUREATE Submissions are due November 8, 2013 My appointment as Washington State Poet Laureate will conclude in February 2014. They&#8217;ve been the most gratifying two years of my working life. \u00a0My most wonderful &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=2056\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,1],"tags":[92,695],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}